Local Charities and Churches:
1. We are a small family Trust. Apart from Flagship Projects, our standard grants at the bi-annual meetings average between £500 and £2,000. Applications asking for higher amounts are unlikely to be looked on favourably.
2. It is essential that applicants take note of the Foundation’s remit, i.e. to support charities working in the Swansea area. National organisations are not excluded but must identify work they do in this area and specify how any donation will be used locally.
3. As a small Foundation, we sympathise with other small organisations which lack the resources for major fundraising campaigns. Our donation policy tends to favour such organisations. We do naturally scrutinise all requests very carefully for any trace of fraudulent applications.
4. Because grants are small, we prefer to support specific work/need of an organisation rather than contribute towards salary costs. Having said that, we acknowledge, of course, that it takes people to deliver projects.
5. The Trustees have a strong preference to give grants where work is self-sustaining or includes an element of self-help. Organisations that ask their beneficiaries to contribute, involve and educate others will stand a better chance of obtaining a grant.
6. Organisations re-applying less than 12 months after a grant has been awarded are unlikely to be successful. This simply reflects the fact that we have far more applications than we can satisfy. At the same time, we like to build links with organisations over a period of time to help with ongoing projects and new development opportunities.
7. Approximately nine months after receiving a donations, we ask organisations to complete an electronic evaluation form to identify if and how the funding has taken forward the work of the organisation. This also allows the Trustees to find out how many beneficiaries have been helped and by this means gauge the “value for money” that the grant has provided.
https://www.austinbaileyfoundation.charity/guidelines-for-applicants